Days of Anna Madrigal

Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, the latest novel in Armistead Maupins Tales of the City series follows one of modern literatures most beloved and indelible charactersAnna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Laneas she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her complicated past.Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of leaving like a lady, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her logical family in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker, Jake Greenleaf, her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter, Shawna, and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.Some members of Annas family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevadas Black Rock Desert where sixty thousand revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself has another Nevada destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the sixteen-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty, troubled heart of her Depression-era childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams, and to attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.The ninth and final novel in Armistead Maupins classic Tales of the City series, The Days of Anna Madrigal is the triumphant resolution to a saga of urban family life that has enchanted and enlightened readers around the world since 1976.